
What’s your name and how old are you?
My name is Steve Iacono, and I am 24 years old.
Where are you from?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
When did you start blading?
I started blading around 1997, and skated in front of my house for like 2-3 years.
How did you get the nickname “Alf”?
“Alf” was my favorite show when I was little, and for some odd reason they used to always re-run TV shows from the late-’80s era, but they would never show “Alf” on TV. One day I was out complaining about how it wasn’t re-run like “Happy Days” and “The Wonder Years,” and I had really messy hair, and one of my friends says, “With that haircut you look like Alf.” And he started saying it and it kinda caught on pretty fast. [...]
Check the full One, BLADE LIFE: An Interview with Steve Iacono.